Frederick Alexander

Substack bestseller, I write mostly about useful idiots and rarely visit X, although I probably ought to change that.

[Frederick Alexander @GadflyNotes]

"How incredible to see the Archbishop of Canterbury grinning into the camera like she’s had too much Prosecco at the end-of-week office party, standing next to a woman who has been redacted – reduced to a silhouette, a nothing wearing a ribbon."
https://t.co/QJTm61RDWZ

[Ted S @ClearReason]

There were more Jews alive in 1939 than there are today.

The world’s population has more than tripled in that time.

That’s what genocide leaves behind.

[Frederick Alexander @GadflyNotes]

@TonyLapidus 😂

[Frederick Alexander @GadflyNotes]

@benryanwriter You have to be joking.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

You might need to read up. That’s exactly what her mates are calling for.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Evil detests beauty because beauty is proof of a transcendental order, of objective Goodness and Truth.

To attack beauty is to wage war against the possibility of transcendence.

Beauty is a great affront to nihilism. It testifies to that which is greater than the individual, because to create a beautiful thing is to acknowledge that you are answerable to standards higher than your own. Beauty is often called a great evangelist for this reason.

This is why they outright destroy beauty or try to subvert your perception of it by promoting ugliness or triviality. Beauty is neither neutral nor trivial — your ability to discern the beautiful from the ugly is intimately connected to your capacity to recognize the divine.

Dietrich von Hildebrand once declared that "beauty is the archenemy of mediocrity." Why?

Beauty elevates a person toward truth, goodness, and the divine. The antitheses to beauty drag the soul down into nihilism and worship of the self.

[Maarten Boudry @mboudry]

We will all soon know what it feels like to be Jewish. In France, they already do.

It will be our just deserts for having abandoned the Jews, ignored their warnings, turned against them, and even marched alongside their oppressors.

For three years, you useful idiots have been parading Palestinian flags, sporting keffiyehs, screaming “From the River to the Sea”, and recognizing a fictitious Palestinian state as a reward for Hamas’s October 7 massacre (looking at you, @EmmanuelMacron). You have boycotted the only Jewish state in the world, vilified the Jewish people’s right to self-determination (aka “Zionism”), and spread the “Gaza genocide” blood libel.

Did you really think that if you fed the crocodile enough Jewish flesh, it would eventually be satiated? All you have done is embolden the monster and whet its appetite.

So you were worried about “colonization”? Look around. The only thing being colonized here are our own Western cities. The Palestinian flag has become a victory banner, proudly waved amid the ruins of looted and vandalized historic buildings—a symbol of hatred for our civilization and everything it stands for.

It never ends with the Jews.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

A picture worth a thousand words.

[Frederick Alexander @GadflyNotes]

@spectator Legend. I wrote about here also:
https://t.co/QJTm61RDWZ

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

Try to imagine the reaction from the Islamists and pro Palestine propagandists like Owen Jones, Mehdi Hasan, Tucker Carlson etc if instead of this young man being executed (for a hastily deleted social media post criticising Islam) by Saudi Arabia - the man was being executed by Israel (for being rude about Judaism). 

We all know, without a shadow of a doubt that it is all we would be hearing about. It would lead the news cycle. His face would appear on protest posters at every event. Celebrities would be lining up to appear in yet another solemn video berating Israel for being uniquely demonic. Singers would be chanting his name to their audiences. By now we would all know his name. 

But instead, nothing. Zero. Why?

We know why the Islamists and anti semites behave like this. And the celebrities, who think they will benefit personally from joining this latest mass hysteria. But how about the ordinary followers? The kind of people we’ve known for years and who began reposting ‘River to the sea’ type slogans after the Oct 7 atrocity.  Does this glaring inconsistency make them think at all? How do they explain it?

[Frederick Alexander @GadflyNotes]

@edwest Oh crap, really? I suppose I should start something here after all.

[Never Again @Never_Again2020]

Sir Simon Schama on Ed Miliband: “Any foreign secretary who went out of his way to shake the hand of the foreign minister of the Republic of Iran, whose regime murdered 40,000 people, has not got the authority to sermonise about anything, ever again!”

https://t.co/YQvaR7Hzwq

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

The Government is keeping a blacklist of people who question its policies, with social media posts criticising the Government being monitored and investigated by officials. https://t.co/9HlhUPcfeu

[Frederick Alexander @GadflyNotes]

In Britain, you can be denied bail for a spicy post about the sort of people who get bail after being arrested on suspicion of plotting to blow up a Royal Air Force base.
This is not a serious country.

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

Lucy Connolly was refused bail for a social media post. Twice. 🤔

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

Holy shit

[Frederick Alexander @GadflyNotes]

@bindelj "How incredible to see the Archbishop of Canterbury grinning into the camera like she’s had too much Prosecco at the end-of-week office party, standing next to a woman who has been redacted – reduced to a silhouette, a nothing wearing a ribbon."
https://t.co/cKP0tzpuZG

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

I’m struggling with the concept of someone who goes big on the moral importance of recognising the death & devastation in Gaza, & then 2 weeks later sits down with the Foreign Minister of a regime which this year murdered tens of thousands of people over the course of 72 hours.

[Frederick Alexander @GadflyNotes]

Just unbelievable

[Mahyar Tousi @MahyarTousi]

History will never forget what the pro-Islam British government did here.

[Mahyar Tousi @MahyarTousi]

History will never forget what the pro-Islam British government did here.

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Ah intent. That would be the Hamas charter to wipe out Israel and everyone in it. Try to do your own thinking instead of relying on a do-gooder international legal construct which bears no actual resemblance to what genocide is. The people you shill for were offered a two state solution in 2000. They turned it down. Arafat said he didn’t want to end the grievance. Worst political decision I’ve ever seen. Then elected a terrorist group who spent all their money on tunnels and death while ignoring the needs of their own people. Then launched a raid of barbaric horror hoping to get a reaction. Duly got one. Why are you so taken with these people? Most of the Arab countries don’t give a monkeys about them, see them as a problem. But they’re a greater cause celebre than the Uighurs or any other victims. The conclusion has to be that you have a weird white guilt loathing of the Jews. If you genuinely cared for Arab outreach as your organisation name suggests you’d be demanding new Palestinian leadership and a peace deal between Israel and the Gulf states which might just pave the way for some sort of deal on the Palestinians. Instead you’re whanging on about genocide and pursuing a solution which the Palestinians themselves have repeatedly rejected